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Ruth B. Waters

      I recently purchased, Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania, edited by George Johnston, for some information contained in it. After looking through the book more closely, I found some laid in papers--specifically two pages of poems. The poems were written by and signed by Ruth B. Waters on January 3rd and January 4, 1971 (timely, right?).

      The poems are not yet in the public domain and as Ruth B. Waters may still be living, as such I do not want to violate her privacy. Having said that however, maybe someone in the Waters family, or Ruth, is interested in knowing these poems have survived. Best, Pat                             ---Copyright ©  2016 Passed Time.  All Rights Reserved.---

  Earlier, in the year 2015, a friend shared fascinating bits of Conard Family genealogy with Passed Time's readers.* I happened to come across this passage today in The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania, edited by George Johnston.** Enjoy! Pat Earnest, Delaware, pcsuter@passedtime.com --Copyright © 2016 Passed Time. All Rights Reserved.--

Rebecca Conard

    Rebecca Conard, a member of the Conard family of West Grove and vicinity, and the daughter of Paul and Sarah (Roberts) Conard, was born January 27, 1800, and died in West Chester, January 5, 1875. Most of her life was spent in Chester County, and part of it in teaching in Westtown School. She spent much of her time and means in ministering to the comforts of the poor and distressed. Her poems were collected after her death by her friends, and published in a small volune entitled "Poems by a Friend." Her poems are chaste and beautiful, and mostly of a religious character. 

The King's Daughters

The King's daughter is all glorious within.--PSalm xiv. 13

No outward plumes or paltry show

Adorn Jerusalem's fair;

Nor yet with mincing steps they go,

Or braiding of the hair.

Their ornaments are all within;

All glorious are they, too;

Untarnished by polluting sin,

Unsaddened by its woe. 

Their hearts, the temples of their God,

made clean and purified

By the stoning, precious blood

Of Jesus crucified.

'Tis here His holiness and grace,

His honor loves to come;

To enter, yea, and sup with such,

And claim them as his own.

The sheep of his peculiar care,

The lambs of Zion's fold;

No prowling wolves can enter there,

For Jesus guards the hold,

And carries them as in his arms,

And leads them by the hand,

Protecting from inclement storms

The weak ones of his band.

*A featured article as of January 2, 2016

**Johnston, George. The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Collected and Edited by George Johnston. J.H. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 1890 p. 47

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From: A Business Insider Article by Jeremy Bender

From the summer of 1944 until the end of the World War II in Europe, the US fielded a unique 'Ghost Army' throughout France and the Rhine Valley in order to deceive the Third Reich into over estimating the strength of the Allied forces.

The Ghost Army, which consisted of 1,100 handpicked men and a number of phony inflatable tanks and weapons, was part of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops.

The unit's sole responsibility was to create illusions and spread disinformation about the strength and location of Allied forces. Read More 

If the web were a person, it wouldn't have trouble renting a car from now on: the world'sfirst website, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, went online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when it went live at CERN on December 20th, 1990 (that wouldn't happen until August 1991), and it wasn't much more than an explanation of how the hypertext-based project worked. However, it's safe to say that this plain page laid the groundwork for much of the internet as you know it -- even now, you probably know one or two people who still think the web is the internet.

Where are the creators in 2015? Read More

No. 3 Winter Soup

    Take a large shin of beef, saw it through in several places, and score or notch the meat quite to the bone. Put the beef into a soup-pot, adding one quart of water to each pound of beef. Add a red pepper-pod and let the whole boil six hours; then strain it and place it away to cool. This soup, thus made, will keep good for several days. Whenever you wish to use it, remove all the fat and put the soup into the pot again, adding two large turnips, one carrot, two onions, and three potatoes finely cut into fanciful shapes. Let the whole boil for two hours, then add salt, and if you like, a little mace, a tea-spoonful of sugar, and a sprig of celeery, which gives it a lively flavour. The soup is then ready for the table. It is sometimes called Shin Soup. *

The Practical Cook Book; Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts: Consisting of Directions for Selecting, Preparing and Cooking all Kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry, and Game, Soups, Breads, Vegetables and Salads. Also for the Making of all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Breads, Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, Creams, Ices, Jellies, Preserves, Marmalades, etc. etc. etc. Together with Various Miscellaneous Receipts, and Numerous Preparations for Invalids. By Mrs. Bliss, Philadephia, E. Claxton and Company, 920 Market Street, 1882. page 12

*If you like the free information found here on Passed Time, please give us a nod to your friends and family--word of mouth is a wonderful thing and helps us remain free. 

Cairo (AFP) - An archaeologist said Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king.

DNA tests have proved that the pharaoh Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamun, but the identity of his mother has long been a mystery.

On Sunday, Egyptian officials and French archaeologist Alain Zivie unveiled Maia's tomb to journalists ahead of its opening to the public next month. Read More

A fun link for folks with a few minutes to spare, comparing modern celebrities like Alec Baldwin, Rupert Grint, Jennifer Lawrence, Adrien Brody etc. to their historical doppelgangers. FYI: The article provides scarce information on the historical figures. Read More Here

For the AP by Aron Heller

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate.

But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-ranking noncommissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he ordered more than 1,000 Americans captives to step forward with him and brazenly pronounced: "We are all Jews here." Read More Here

King Tut's tomb may conceal Egypt's lost Queen

 Nefertiti by Reuters Videos 0:56 mins

      Experts say they are optimistic that King Tutankhamun's tomb has

passages to a hidden chamber, which may be the last resting

 place of the lost Queen Nefertiti. Jillian Kitchener reports. Link to

Reuter's Video Here

Here is another update by Newsweek Author Paula Mejia

King Tutankhamun’s final resting place has been known for almost 100 years, since Howard Carter’s landmark discovery of the tomb in the Valley of Kings in Luxor, Egypt in 1922.

Now, researchers say they’re convinced the Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb bears a hidden chamber that has yet to be explored. The size of the chamber is unknown, but researchers are confident the radar imaging scans indicate that it does, in fact, exist.

So what’s in the hidden chamber? Some researchers are confident that the long-lost remains of Queen Nefertiti, thought to be Tutankhamun’s stepmother (she died in 14th century B.C.), may be among the treasures lying behind a partition wall in the tomb. Read More Newsweek by Paula Mejia

[Can You]Guess Who This Is?: A Cautionary Tale

   [Can you]Guess who this is? No, neither could the folks here at Passed Time. Remember, it might seem like a cute idea, but memories and people are only around for so long.

   Some might argue that the photo's subject only intended for the photo to catch a passing moment meant only for specific persons. That position is debatable. Photographs in and of themelves, are very human attempts to leave a part of ourselves behind. Good, bad, ugly--it does not matter. We want to be remembered.

   She was found in in a large box of photos. A slim possibility exists that I might be able to find her identity. I'll keep you updated as I go through them. Best, Pat © Pat Earnest Delaware 2015